Cities and towns; Social psychology; Sociology; Sociology, Urban
Sims, Newell Leroy. _The Rural Community, Ancient and Modern_ (New
York, 1920). (II, 1, 2; III, 1, 6; IV, 1; V, 3.)
Slosson, P. “Small-Townism,” _Independent_, CVI (July 9, 1921), 106–7.
(X, 2, 3.)
Wilson, Warren H. _Quaker Hill: A Sociological Study_ (New York,
1907).
A picture of a community held together by religious and social
bonds. Shows the transition from a primary to a secondary type of
contact. (V, 3; VII, 2; IX, 3.)
6. The city may be the unplanned product of the interaction of
successive generations with the environment, or it may be the result of
intentional activity with a specific end in view. We hear of ancient
cities springing up at the will of an emperor bent on glorifying his
name. There are cities in America that are the premeditated product of
individuals or corporations bent on creating an adjunct to a factory.
There are capital cities in America owing their existence to the
decisions of a legislature. The planned city differs from the “natural”
city not only in its structural form but in its functional aspects and
its capacity for growth. Probably no planned city can grow into a
metropolis if it does not somehow find for itself an important function
in world-economy and earn its place in the competitive process.
Aurousseau, M. “Urban Geography: A Study of German Towns,” _Geog.
Rev._, XI (October, 1921), 614–16.
A review of a German work (Geisler, Walter, “Beiträge zur
Stadtgeographie.” _Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde_, Nos.
8–10 [Berlin, 1920], 274–96). Shows the influence of the old town
plan on the development of the modern city. (II, 2, 3; III.)
Bodine, H. E. “Study of Local History Teaches Value of City-Planning,”
_American City_, XXV (September, 1921), 241–45.
Cushing, C. P. “Rambler on the Standardized City,” _Travel_, XXIX
(July, 1917), 40.
Ely, Richard T. “Pullman: A Social Study,” _Harper’s New Monthly
Magazine_, LXX (December, 1884), 453–65.
While more of a general survey than a special study of the influence
of the city plan upon the actual growth of the city, it does show
some disharmonies arising out of the attempt to control a planned
urban project in the face of growth and unexpected complications.
(IV, 4; VII, 3; IX, 1.)
Ormiston, E. “Public Control of the Location of Towns,” _Econ. Jour._,
XXVIII (December, 1918), 374–85.
Shows some of the abortive attempts to establish towns in
unfavorably situated environments. Suggests public control as a
possible preventive measure, if based on thorough study of all
factors involved in the possibilities for growth and development.
(III, 2, 3, 4; IV, 6.)
Whitbeck, R. H. “Selected Cities of the United States,” _Jour. Geog._,
XXI (September, 1922), 205–42.
Contains several maps showing city structure.
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